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Every clause your firm has drafted, amended or agreed is stored as institutional knowledge

Most firms have a precedent bank that nobody maintains and a handful of partners who remember what was actually agreed. Scriptum builds the clause library automatically from the documents your lawyers already draft and negotiate: the wording, who it was agreed with, which side you acted for, and every round it took to get there. Owned by the firm, searchable from Word, and richer with each matter.

Built as you work, not from an unbillable KM project

Nobody has to file anything. As drafts, turns and signed versions move through a matter, Scriptum parses each document, maps every clause to your firm's taxonomy and records the context: matter, client, document type, counterparty and the side you acted for. What you see on the right is the result: a library organised the way a transactional lawyer thinks, by clause type, not by folder.

  • Clause mapping across corporate, commercial, employment, real estate and banking
  • Lawyers confirm the handful of uncertain matches; the rest is automatic
  • Grouped by concept, so equivalent positions across document types sit together

What the firm actually agreed, and with whom

Open a clause type and you get every instance the firm has captured: the agreed wording, the matter it came from, the document, the side you acted for and the counterparty. Filter to the situation in front of you, sort by what matters, and copy any clause with its provenance attached.

  • Firm-preferred wording separated from settled compromises
  • Filter by side, document type and counterparty
  • Lawyer notes travel with the clause, so the reasoning survives the deal

How the clause got there, round by round

Any clause that took more than one round opens into its full history for that matter: your internal drafts and releases, the counterparty's incoming markup and the agreed form, each diffed against the round before. A partner can see exactly where the other side moved the 36 months to 24, and which round it happened in.

  • Word-level tracked changes between rounds
  • Questions and answers raised against the clause at each point
  • Copy a single round, the agreed text, or the full history as a record

The right clause, in the draft, with its history attached

The same library is searchable from the Word add-in without leaving the document. Results are ranked by what the firm has actually agreed, with the firm-preferred wording first and the fallbacks behind it. Insert as a tracked change and the provenance travels with it in a comment, so the reviewing partner can see why that wording was chosen.

  • Every insert is a proposal held for the drafting lawyer's decision
  • One click from a result to the full negotiation history
  • Suggestions improve as the library grows, matter by matter

An asset that stays when people move on

The library is your firm's data, built only from your firm's matters, and never used to train models or shared with anyone else. When a senior lawyer leaves, what they knew about a counterparty's habits or where a cap tends to land does not leave with them. It is already in the library, attached to the clauses and the matters where it was learned.

  • Firm-level isolation enforced at the database layer
  • No-training commitment flowing down to every model provider
  • Export at any time; the data is yours
Clause libraryBraden LLP, venture and growth

Interactive preview with sample data. Navy marks your firm's drafts and releases, amber marks incoming counterparty markup, green marks the agreed form.

See your own library take shape

Bring three recent matters to the demo and watch the clause library build from them in front of you.

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